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Author: Hugo Soucy <hugo@soucy.cc>
Date:   Sat,  9 Jan 2021 22:28:49 -0500

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diff --git a/content/2021/mp/history-will-not-remember-us-fondly.lua b/content/2021/mp/history-will-not-remember-us-fondly.lua
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+return {
+  title = "History will not remember us fondly",
+  url = "https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/07/History-will-not-remember-us-fondly.html",
+  date = "2021-01-07",
+  datetime = "21:28:21",
+  posttype = "bookmark",
+  keywords = { "history","capitalism","usa","politics","future" }
+}
diff --git a/content/2021/mp/history-will-not-remember-us-fondly.md b/content/2021/mp/history-will-not-remember-us-fondly.md
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+<https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/07/History-will-not-remember-us-fondly.html>
+
+> &laquo;*We possess the resources and production necessary to provide every
+> human being on Earth with a comfortable living: adequate food,
+> housing, health, and happiness. We have decided not to do so. We have
+> achieved what one may consider the single unifying goal of the entire
+> history of humanity: we have eliminated natural scarcity for our basic
+> resources. We have done this, and we choose to deny our fellow humans
+> their basic needs, in the cruel pursuit of profit. We have more empty
+> homes than we have homeless people. America alone throws away enough
+> food to feed the entire world population. And we choose to let our
+> peers die of hunger and exposure*.&raquo;
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+return {
+  title = "The Power of Anarchist Analysis",
+  url = "https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-power-of-anarchist-analysis",
+  date = "2021-01-07",
+  datetime = "21:44:24",
+  posttype = "bookmark",
+  keywords = { "anarchism","analysis","article", }
+}
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+<https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-power-of-anarchist-analysis>
+
+> &laquo;*But I liked the anarchists most because they asked penetrating
+> and useful questions and refused to defer to authority.*&raquo;
+>
+> [...]
+>
+> &laquo;*That doesn’t mean that there are no legitimate
+> authorities. But it does mean that no authority is presumptively
+> legitimate. The king’s orders might be good ones, but they are not
+> good because he is the king, and their being good does not
+> necessarily make kings good or necessary. Your professor may be
+> right, but they are not right because they are your
+> professor.*&raquo;
+>
+> [...]
+>
+> &laquo;*The anarchist has a brain that won’t shut up. They cannot
+> keep themselves from asking “What is this? What is it for? Must
+> things be this way? Can they be different?” Children, of course, ask
+> questions like these, and one reason I like anarchists is that they
+> refuse to stop asking questions that we all had as children but
+> never received satisfactory answers to. If you asked: Why are some
+> people very rich and other people very poor, and why do the rich
+> people not just give the poor people enough money, you were probably
+> fed some bullshit that doesn’t really make sense. Some of us just
+> stop asking questions eventually, but anarchists are uncommonly
+> stubborn people who do not accommodate themselves to the society
+> around them no matter how intense the pressure. *&raquo;
+>
+> [...]
+>
+> &laquo;*The anarchist tradition is also strongly democratic. If you
+> read old anarchist books, you will find that they are accessible,
+> because anarchists believe in the “democratization of knowledge” and
+> are suspicious of having a small class of intellectuals be the only
+> ones who understand things. Anarchists are generally pro
+> “decentralization”: They do not like concentrated power, and they
+> raise important questions about how we can balance the need to
+> accomplish things with making sure there is mass
+> participation. (Occupy’s general assemblies with their consensus
+> process were an example of anarchist democracy, which is beautiful
+> and uncommonly inclusive but often maddeningly inefficient.)*&raquo;